Covert spatial attention in search for the location of a color-afterimage patch speeds up its decay from awareness: Introducing a method useful for the study of neural correlates of visual awareness

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1048-1053

  Bachmann, Talis ^a   Murd, Carolina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Afterimages; Color; Consciousness; Neural correlates; Spatial attention; Visual awareness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFTERIMAGE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT; HUMANS; MALE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952890760     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.03.013     Document Type: Article

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